Ferdinando Thayer
1625 - 1713 (87 years)-
Name Ferdinando Thayer Born 18 Apr 1625 Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England 
Gender Male Died 28 Mar 1713 Mendon, Worcester County, Province of Massachusetts Bay Person ID I147 Carson Family Last Modified 10 Apr 2015
Father Thomas Thayer, b. 16 Aug 1596, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England , d. 2 Jun 1665, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 68 years) Mother Margery Wheeller, b. 25 Apr 1600, Thornbury, Gloucestershire, England , d. 11 Feb 1672, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 71 years) Married 13 Apr 1618 Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Thornbury, Gloucester, England Family ID F69 Group Sheet
Family Huldah Hayward, b. 7 Oct 1636, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony , d. 1 Sep 1690, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 53 years) Married 14 Jan 1652 Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony Children 1. Jonathan Thayer, b. 18 Jan 1658, Braintree, Norfolk County, Massachusetts Bay Colony , d. 1690, Mendon, Worcester County, Massachusetts Bay Colony (Age 31 years)Last Modified 10 Apr 2015 Family ID F67 Group Sheet
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Notes
McCartney & McClung Geneology: http://www.on-sitetraining.com/Ancestors/p24.htm#i577
Memorial of the Thayer Name (page 222): https://archive.org/stream/memorialofthayer00thay#page/222/mode/2up
Rootsweb: http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=margaretharke24&id=I2747
FindaGrave: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=34258846
Fredinando was born in England in 1625 and came to America with his mother about 1640. Some sources say the whole family, Thomas, Margaery and their three sons came to America together in 1632/33. Moved from Braintree to Mendon in 1668, where he raised a big family and died in 1713. Was a selectman and built his own house which was burned when Indians burned the town of Mendon during King Philip's War. The family moved back to Braintree, but returned to Mendon and rebuilt the house 1679/80. He was a man of wealth and large properties and his house was near the center of town on Providence Road. He was the largest contributor to the salary of Rev. Erindel Pauson. He married Huldah Hayward who bore him twelve children.One of his descendants was Eli Thayer, one of the founders of the New England Emigrant Society. The Society sent settlers to Kansas in the 1850's to help save Kansas from becoming a slave state.